Yasir Suleiman

Yasir Suleiman CBE is a scholar of Arabic literature and language, and modern Middle Eastern politics. He is emeritus Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is a Palestinian Arab living in the diaspora.

Suleiman holds degrees from Amman University, the University of St Andrews, and Durham University. He lectures on topics related to the Middle East. He was selected to be a trustee of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2007–2009).

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.